# 2nd Halyard **URL:** https://nonsuch.discourse.group/t/2nd-halyard/5750 **Category:** Newsgroups Archive Prior to 2025 **Created:** [June 23, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/t/2nd-halyard/5750 "2015-06-23T00:50:08Z") **Posts on this page:** 4 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![user80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e480ec/32.png) [@user80](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/u/user80) #### Post date: [June 23, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/t/2nd-halyard/5750/1 "2015-06-23T00:50:08Z")
I've got a double block at the masthead. I'd like to rig a second backup halyard. Can I exit both halyards out of the single exit hole I currently have or do I need to cut a second hole? Mike BIANKA 1986 30U ---
### Author: ![user100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7ea924/32.png) [@user100](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/u/user100) #### Post date: [June 23, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/t/2nd-halyard/5750/2 "2015-06-23T01:36:02Z")
Mike, I’d say a second exit would be recommended… I really can’t see how the single exit would work with two lines, they would get tangled and would not work well together. Email [Mike Quill](mailto:mquill@cogeco.ca) for his advice, I’m sure he will have the best answer for you. Regards, Dick (& Shirley) Darrow _Cativa_, NS30U #496 Sodus Bay, NY USA ---
### Author: ![user4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7cd45c/32.png) [@user4](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/u/user4) #### Post date: [June 23, 2015, 11:01am UTC](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/t/2nd-halyard/5750/3 "2015-06-23T11:01:41Z")
Hi Mike, a friend of mine has the same arrangement at the masthead. He has run a small nylon line through the the halyard slot at the base of the mast, up over the second shieve at the mast head and back down again. Both ends are secured very tightly at the base of the mast so that this messenger line does not get tangled up with the halyard. It’s been like that for 26 years…no problem. Ron Ron & Diane Schryver “Alpha Waves” '87 NS30U #393 Georgian Bay, Midland ON ---
### Author: ![user11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dfb087/32.png) [@user11](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/u/user11) #### Post date: [June 23, 2015, 12:19pm UTC](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/t/2nd-halyard/5750/4 "2015-06-23T12:19:02Z")
Ron: Thanks I may do that. I’ve got some parachute cord that may be perfect for the purpose. Richard: Yeah I was looking at the exit hole last night and yeah it would be tight. Though I’m not real keen on cutting another hole in the mast right now. Mike BIANKA 1986 30U [THE BIANKA LOG BLOG](http://biankablog.blogspot.com/) | | | | [![image](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3LBgG4ejfQc/VXwx3HQbTAI/AAAAAAAAJGs/_nxp9JDv9PA/s1600/IMG_1864.JPG)](http://biankablog.blogspot.com/) | | | | | | | [THE BIANKA LOG BLOG](http://biankablog.blogspot.com/) While I was getting things ready for launching this spring I came across an old cutting board stored away at home. | | | | [View on biankablog.blogspot…](http://biankablog.blogspot.com/) | Preview by Yahoo | | | | | Hi Mike, a friend of mine has the same arrangement at the masthead. He has run a small nylon line through the the halyard slot at the base of the mast, up over the second shieve at the mast head and back down again. Both ends are secured very tightly at the base of the mast so that this messenger line does not get tangled up with the halyard. It’s been like that for 26 years…no problem. Ron Ron & Diane Schryver “Alpha Waves” '87 NS30U #393 Georgian Bay, Midland ON